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5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
5 - 10 Minutes SEE CASE FILE
6TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Visual
7. COURSE
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h. Was there a tail, vapor trail, or exhaust? '0 i. Any Sound
j. What called attention to the observer
k. What angle and elevation was the object on first observance.
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1. What angle and elevation was the object when disappeared
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m. What was the flight path of object (to north or south, tg east or west) and
were thore any maneuvers of t the object. ti st stthe
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q. Time and date of sighting_
r. Light conditions (night, day, dusk)
3. Geographical position of object (North of Houston, South of Pasadena,
directly overhead, etc.)
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to confirm nor deny the observance of the object.
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please notify m time.
. I have discussed this matter only with two men, and at
the time of sighting. time of sighting One, a prominant e, a prominant manager in our area,
and the other my the other my pastor. pastor.
I hope that t%ot this letter tto will not be received in any
other manner, than that for which it is intended.
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cars in the area. A few moments later he noticed I some peculiar yellowish-
reddish lights coming fre an object approximately 5oo feet.above the ground..
The lights seemed to be moving back and forth in a horizontal direction and
appeared to be similar to neon light tubes which he estimated to be eight in
number. There was no apparent sound; however, both Mr. yand his wife
claimed that their ears were bothered by what seemed to be a very high fre-
quency pitch. There was a high overcast with no stars or moon on that night
Therefore it was quite dark and Mr. was unable to determine the size
and shape of the obiect at this time. However, the object' traveled approxi-
mately a mile and a half to the west towards the Jefferson County Airport.
About this same time an aircraft took off from the airport and turned in the
direction of the unknown object. As the aircraft approached the object it
direction and in a slow rate of climb. Mr. observed all of this with
his naked eye and was unable to get any pictures.
Although Mr. was very fearful of ridicule from the local populace
man from the power company and determined that the reason for the power outage
was due to the failure of a transformer. He further found out that this
transformer was located very near to his house and that the failure occurred
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almost at the same time as the sighting of the UFO.
Mr found it very difficult to describe the UFO and admitted
that he was not very goo t drawing pictures but if the Air Force felt
that it was necessary he probably could describe it well enough to an
artist so that a fairly representative picture could be drawn.
Mr. was unaware of any other residents seeing this UFo but
attributed this to the fact that he was very hesitant in mentioning it to
anyone since he definitely does not want any publicity on the sighting.
However, after the sighting he did call the control tower at the Jefferson
County Airport to determine if they had seen it also but found that they
had not seen anything and laughed at his axplanation and request.
CONCLUSION:
This preliminary investigation did not disclose any feasible ex-
planation for Mr. UFO sighting. A more detailed investigation and
a personal visit will be accomplished if requested from your headquarters.
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a large weather balloon and stated that its diameter was approximately 5
feet at the time of release. Although his records did not contain any
information on surface or high altitude winds, they did indicate that
there was a strong surface wind at the time of release and the balloon
attained a maximum altitude of 13,5l4 meters (44,596 feet) before it burst.
Mr. Richards suggested I contact the National Weather Records Center to
secure additional detailed information on this launching. Mr. Richards
stated that balloons of this size usually have a constant rate of ascent
of approximately l,ooo feet per minute and that winds have very little
effect on the rate of climb.
4. Mr. Haggard, Director of the National Weather Records Center, Asheville,
N. C., was contacted by phone (253-O427) and was requested to forward to me,
by letter, all information that his Center has on the release of the
balloon in question. Mr. Haggard stated he would see that this was accom-
plished as soon as possible.
5. Observations made from a map indicate that the UFO sighting location
is aporoximately y 42 nautical miles from Lake Charles, La, on an azimuth
of 245°. C
LAURENCE R. LEACH, JE., MajOr, USAF
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ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION
6 July 1966
Attached Adiabatic chart received from U. S. Weather Bureau this date.
The local weather officer, Major Paul Ulrich, was contacted to interpret
the information for me. The following information was received from him:
"Assuming the balloon's ascension rate was looo feet per minute, the
adiabatic chart indicates the balloon had the following flight path during
the duration of f flight indicated:
DIRECTION ESTIMATED
MINUTES OF FLIGHT GROUND SPEED ALTITUDE
1 290° 290 3.NMPH 3.NMPH 1000 ft 1000 ft
2 2 320° 13 NMPH 13 NMPH 2000 ft
3 010 12 MMPH 12 MMPH 3000 ft 3000 ft
4fra{  }$ 4 030 030 12 NMPH 4000 ft
5 070° 23 NMPH 5000 ft ft
CONCLUSION: CONCLUSION:
The above information eliminates the possibility that the balloon was in
the area of the UFO sighting by Mr. "Since there apparently were no
cther local balloons released at this time, it appears that this possibility
must be eliminated.
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Enclosed are copies of the weather records listed below:
8T WRAN-3lA, B & C, Adiabatic Charts - Lake Charles, La.
a 132 February 6, 1966 (0515 Local Time)
These data are furnished without charge.
The Data Processing Division of the Environmental Technical
Applications Center, Air Weather Service, is collocated with
the National Weather Records Center and is the usual channel for
providing climatological weather information te o military users.
The Chier of the Data Processing Division is cognizant d f this
request, and has suggested that we advise you of the normal
channel for information in the event you have future requests.
for past weather data.
Inelosures
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